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Wii U Games 2015
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ZSaberLink
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Just like the 3DS until recently clearly had 0 1st party titles releasing for the rest of the year
. The hyperbole has been very strong across the internet these days. Anyways, I have and will continue to grow my backlog this year so w/e.And SMT X FE.
Just like the 3DS until recently clearly had 0 1st party titles releasing for the rest of the year
Oh, come on, you feel it too. This was E3, not a Nintendo Direct showing upcoming fall games.
So, I wasnt THAT wrong, eh?
http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1019170
Btw, for EU, in terms of exclusives:
June: Yoshi
August: Devil Third
September: Mario Maker (amiibo bundle too), Skylander esclusive amiibos, Rodea
Autumn: Fatal Frame V, Mario & Sonic at Rio
Q4: Animal Crossing Amiibo festival (amiibo bundle too), Star Fox 0, Mario Tennis Ultra slam
December: Xenoblade X
bold ones will be mine. actually, a good 2015 for my tastes.
Too bad in '16 we are gonna get Illusory Revelation and possibly Zelda U. Neither Pokken was confirmed...
AKA RIP WII U, sorry but I tried to tell you that months ago.
http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1019170
Btw, for EU, in terms of exclusives:
June: Yoshi
August: Devil Third
September: Mario Maker (amiibo bundle too), Skylander esclusive amiibos, Rodea
Autumn: Fatal Frame V, Mario & Sonic at Rio
Q4: Animal Crossing Amiibo festival (amiibo bundle too), Star Fox 0, Mario Tennis Ultra slam
December: Xenoblade X
bold ones will be mine. actually, a good 2015 for my tastes.
Too bad in '16 we are gonna get Illusory Revelation and possibly Zelda U. Neither Pokken was confirmed...
AKA RIP WII U, sorry but I tried to tell you that months ago.
There will be a full second half for Wii U, I will get Yoshi, Devil's Third, Super Mario Maker, Fatal Frame, Star Fox, Xenoblade X. That's a lot of hours of playing.
But I'm afraid for 2016 (and 2017? I wonder if they manage to announce and launch NX in the same year). It really feels like Wii's 2011. It really feels like they haven't learnt from past mistakes.
But I'm afraid for 2016 (and 2017? I wonder if they manage to announce and launch NX in the same year). It really feels like Wii's 2011. It really feels like they haven't learnt from past mistakes.
I'm fairly happy for 2015 (although I'd have like another heavy hitter..or at least a basic HD remake of Galaxy/Sunshine for November)
..2016 is very worrying at present.
If they don't have anything I feel like giving them a slap...
...if they do have a bunch of stuff to reveal I feel like giving them an even bigger slap and shouting..."well why the hell didn't you show them at e3?".
No, that's not how they roll things. At every E3 they showed upcoming games in the next year(s). This E3 was all about "transformation".
..but when people have been speculating about the Wii U being finished..the last thing they should be doing is making it look that it's true by barely announcing any new games at E3.
If the games exist and they didn't announce them...that's an even more boneheaded move. The platform has had positive buzz for the last few months. For the first time in a while they had momentum going into E3, then even more positivity from the Nintendo World Championships...and then they killed it dead in one Digital Event.
Stiflers Mom
Banned
When was that confirmed?
Exactly. With Splatoon's buzz and the better than expected NWC there was such an amount of good will. Which was practically destroyed in 51 minutes. But let's all be happy and upload singing videos of Mario.
People have said many times that games shouldn't be shown too early. Nintendo did that with Zelda, FExSMT and Star Fox for example and got shit for doing so, saying the games weren't nearly ready enough to be shown. So I can understand Nintendo holding back a little bit. Now of course Nintendo gets shit for doing things this way as well, they can never win.
It's because it is either too long or too short which either leaves us with teases or leaves us thinking bugger all is coming. In my opinion, a year is the sweet spot. They could have shown glimpses of stuff they had planned up to the end of Q2 and it may have been much a much more interesting presentation.
Splatoon, for instance, was announced during E3 2014 and released last month. The perfect amount of time to generate hype without leaving us for ages with no details.
Yeah, it's about showing new games to people and they did. It's not the games many of us wanted and I can understand why people are disappointed. But for Wii U, some of the unannounced games clearly aren't ready enough to be shown just yet, but will be in couple of months. I really hope they won't make it like Sony for example, show FFVII remake as a CGI trailer with no sings of gameplay, and there probably won't be any for a year at least. It's bullshit.
Captain Smoker
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Big Update after E3.
Despite the bad digital event, Wii U isn't as dead as it seems.
Going to add Skylanders, Mario & Sonic and Animal Crossing later.
Despite the bad digital event, Wii U isn't as dead as it seems.
Going to add Skylanders, Mario & Sonic and Animal Crossing later.
SporeCrawler
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2015 is much bettee in terms of quantity compared to 2014 but in regardsmto quality i would be surprised if any of the games top bayonetta, toad and smash of last year.
2016 was deliberately not shown but they will in the january direct perhaps even before that.
Animal Crossing CashGrab and Mario Ultra Bare Smash (check impressions from e3)? This are the new games showed for Wii U at E3.
E3 is a marketing event. It's all about promotion. It's the event with the biggest audience. It's the perfect place to show new concepts and announce new games (even if they are coming after 2 years). The issue was never that Nintendo showed games too early, the issue was that they couldn't sustain a reasonable flow of games and they delayed finished games to fill the droughts. The issue is not the January 2013 Direct, but the actual release schedule in the end.
MatrixMan.EXE
Member
Save for Mario Tennis and Amiibo Crossing, we knew about all of these games, and have done for well over a year. Looks pretty dead to me.
I'm holding off on purchasing Kirby and Yoshi's Wooly world for now so that I can let what little there is coming out stack up a bit, then have a Wii U blow out later this year.
Seeing this thread pop up, I have to wonder. I'm reading here and there that Wii U won't have games for 2016 so the next home console is coming then. But is this really true? 2015 is really packed. 2016 has fewer games announced but I think it's fairly obvious that they didn't want to announce games early. Zelda was a special case of course. I'm fairly cetain that around fall/holidays more directs will deliver more games.
If there's a serious problem, it's 3rd Party support but I think there's no way they can change that on Wii U. For me, a Nintendo fan, I'm really happy with everything that's coming. I'm sure that I won't even be able to play or even buy quite a few of the games I want. But I can see people that don't like many of the nintendo games having a hard time(but why would you buy a wii u if you don't like most of these games in the first place?).
I just hope Nintendo will support Wii U long enough to see even more great games. Their output this generation really killed it.
Edit: Just for the sake of it, we have Wooly World that looks fantastic and even better than Yarn Kirby. Devil's Third that seems like a nice concept, even though I doubt it will be a good/great game. Super Mario Maker that seems just fantastic. I was completely uninterested to it last year, but this E3 made me do a 180 turn. Looks great, has infinite replayability, great ideas behind it and it seems to be really fun. StarFox Zero will probably be great and I like everything they showed, despite its looks. Xenoblade X that seems fantastic. It may not be as good as Xenoblade but I doubt it's even close to being something less than great. Fatal Frame that as usually will deliver a great horror experience. I'm not one of those people that buy 3-4 games per month, so all of these sound great for the rest of the year.
If there's a serious problem, it's 3rd Party support but I think there's no way they can change that on Wii U. For me, a Nintendo fan, I'm really happy with everything that's coming. I'm sure that I won't even be able to play or even buy quite a few of the games I want. But I can see people that don't like many of the nintendo games having a hard time(but why would you buy a wii u if you don't like most of these games in the first place?).
I just hope Nintendo will support Wii U long enough to see even more great games. Their output this generation really killed it.
Edit: Just for the sake of it, we have Wooly World that looks fantastic and even better than Yarn Kirby. Devil's Third that seems like a nice concept, even though I doubt it will be a good/great game. Super Mario Maker that seems just fantastic. I was completely uninterested to it last year, but this E3 made me do a 180 turn. Looks great, has infinite replayability, great ideas behind it and it seems to be really fun. StarFox Zero will probably be great and I like everything they showed, despite its looks. Xenoblade X that seems fantastic. It may not be as good as Xenoblade but I doubt it's even close to being something less than great. Fatal Frame that as usually will deliver a great horror experience. I'm not one of those people that buy 3-4 games per month, so all of these sound great for the rest of the year.
Nintendo made me buy Super Mario Maker, Star Fox Zero, Rive, Smash Bros. DLC, before E3 I wasn't sold on any of those. And they made me interested in other games like Runbow, Typoman, FAST Racing Neo (and there's gameplay today on Treehouse to further show the game). And of course there's other games that I knew I'd buy anyway like Xenoblade and Yoshi. So they did their job for me.
Also, it's not the easiest job to have content on two platforms, last year Wii U got most of the stuff, this year 3DS got most. Unfortunately you can't always have both.
BlueSummers
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Correct me if m wrong but wasent Rodea delayed until October? Can add that as well.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
It's weird how Nintendo didn't even mention so many of thse games. Sure, Devil's Third, Fatal Frame and FAST may not be huge games, but they desperately needed more games on the show and these all look interesting.
I'm glad that your happy with the Digital Event. Everything that you list there, except for Star Fox was already presented outside the Digital Event. But if you're happy with it, i guess that's that. Wii U lives!
Porcile
Member
Why the sarcasm? Dude is happy with what he got and will be getting very soon. Why be snarky about it?
Because I said this:
And he answered that he liked it.
And I don't have another answer for this, really. It was not me that started this conversation. And I made clear since the beginning that it's not about the 2015 line-up and I will buy and play a lot of Wii U games this year.
Porcile
Member
Then why are you in a thread about Wii U games specifically coming out in 2015, if you made it clear you aren't even talking about 2015? Go talk about 2016 and beyond in the Digital Event thread or something,
I never said I was especially happy with what we got. I was still disappointed by Retro not showing up as I though they would, but other than that it was ok and the actual Digital Event was fun to watch with interesting backround info on games. So I was also not actually disappointed by the event as I still got stuff I cared about.
I'm also saying that Nintendo will show more stuff in the future like they always do. E3 isn't the "this is all we got for couple of years to come" -event for Nintendo like many people seem to think. We've had some good reveals before and after E3 many times, and it's not going to change now.
Next time when you decide to play the morale card about replies, look in the mirror.
So I should continue a conversation that started in this thread in another thread. Fine, I will try this next time.
You have no basis for this, really. Watch the Digital Event again. Note how many times is Reggie talking about a transformation period (first time directly linked to the NX mention). There was no Nintendo E3 in the recent years without any new console game announcement for next year. That's a fact. But again, I don't want to ruin your happiness so I will stop here.
Just like the 3DS until recently clearly had 0 1st party titles releasing for the rest of the year
Its not Hyperbole, its 1 worldwide game announced for WiiU for 2016, then SMTxFE in the west.
There is no way NX is not coming fall 2016, they are gonna load up the WiiU for the rest of 2015 and maybe have a couple of smaller games early 2016 for WiiU.
But its clear they are saving all the big guns for the NX reveal next year
Omega Kirby
Member
Are people serious that's a solid list for a dead console
SMT will be it's final big game that goes out in a bamg hopefully.
SMT will be it's final big game that goes out in a bamg hopefully.
Doesn't SMT x FE come out in Japan this year? Also, I guess I forgot Mario & Sonic 2016 is out next year. :lol
This was E3, not just some Direct showing off the lineup for the next 3 months. It's incredibly worrying that we got a decent amount of H1 2016 titles announced for 3DS but not a single thing for Wii U. All of this year's H1 titles were announced last E3 (Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Mario Party 10, Splatoon, and for Europe Woolly World) and all of last year's H1 games were announced the E3 before that (DKC: Tropical Freeze and Mario Kart 8).Just like the 3DS until recently clearly had 0 1st party titles releasing for the rest of the year
If you look at the past 2 years, the trend has been 3DS games getting announced a few months before release while Wii U games being announced at the very least the E3 before it comes out. The last non-E3 Wii U reveal we had aside from Mario & Sonic and Fatal Frame V was Hyrule Warriors in December 2013.
The only games for Wii U that will come out in H1 next year are Mario & Sonic and maybe something that gets delayed from this year's lineup, though none of those games really seem like they'd be delayed. Hopefully SMT gets a quick localization.
I think that almost everyone (of those interested in the Wii U, despite it's barebone lineup due to the lack of third party games, probably attracted by its very good list of exclusives) is pretty satisfied with the 2015 lineup (for number of exclusive, variety, possible quality).
we all are pretty dead serious in being worried about '16.
yes, this is Wii U 2015 topic, so in this topic we could be somehow pretty excited.
I wonder if Captain Smoker will ever create a 2016 topic, on the other hand.
Yup its one game a month for me from Aug to Dec.
Devils third
Mario Maker
Fatal Frame U
StarFox Zero
Xenoblade
Then 2016 they move on from WiiU im fine with that
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
I'm legit mad after that showing yesterday. There are obviously some great games on the way this year, but 2016 is going to be a wasteland, apparently.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Or Metroid, apparently. That's some N64 tier nonsense there.
kunonabi
Member
Yeah I'm looking at all that plus art academy, animal crossing, and yoshi. Maybe Mario Tennis if the final game isn't as anemic as it looks now. That's more than enough for me considering I'm picking up like 10 3DS games as well.
Chezzymann
Member
There's a little thing called nintendo directs. They've been doing it for the past 3 years. There's a huge chance more games for the first half of 2016 will be announced later this year.
Gorilla Shark
Member
Personally, the fact that there are at least 6 games in the next year I want for Wii U makes me happy. I'm really excited for Mario Maker, Starfox, and Xenoblade.
That being said - am I the only Nintendo fan excited to see what the Wii U's replacement brings?
I've had the Wii U since launch and have 20+ retail games for it... But I think I'm ready for the next console.
That being said - am I the only Nintendo fan excited to see what the Wii U's replacement brings?
I've had the Wii U since launch and have 20+ retail games for it... But I think I'm ready for the next console.
Captain Smoker
Member
But with Splatoon, Bayonetta, Hyrule Warriors, Star Fox, Wonderful 101, Lego City, Pikmin, Devil's Third, Xenoblade, Fatal Frame, etc. (outside of all the traditional franchises)
Can't get everything. Nintendos output & quality on the Wii U is very good in my opinion.
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
A huge part of the problem is that people are thinking the Wii U has any sort of momentum or that much more hardware can be sold with more games. Short of Nintendo being able to afford a GOOD price cut, this was completely a lost cause a long time ago and Nintendo was always aware of it. Thus the immediate reaction to the 3DS sale slowness and the absolute complacency with Wii U. Nintendo just wants the current fanbase to buy a lot of games at this point. Splatoon is actually selling some consoles in Japan which is cool, but that clearly (at least so far) didn't happen in the US, etc.
Also Iwata already said NX is not a replacement for 3DS or Wii U, so no one really knows what the heck this thing is. That sounds like they have to continue supporting the Wii U at least for now. Momentum is caused by good word of mouth, and I think it's worth at least talking about the awesome 2015 we're having, and we'll see from there. Nintendo will likely reveal a bit more in the next couple of months, just like they did with Hyrule Warriors, Fatal Frame, and other titles in the past.
It was very clear that Nintendo was trying to sell you on the 2015 titles first and I'd say they did a pretty good job on that (possibly even brilliant job with Mario Maker). I actually wasn't planning on getting Yoshi or Mario Maker but I've completely changed my tune after E3 (both games look fantastic). While E3 is a way to announce titles releasing years from now (I'm looking at you FF7 remake), it also is a great tool to sell what you already have.
FAST isn't a first party game! It's an indie title by Shinen. Also Smoker... it's not even a retail game, so not sure why it's up there... The series is known for very pretty graphics and mediocre gameplay, so you can kind of tell it isn't a Nintendo made game.
Also Iwata already said NX is not a replacement for 3DS or Wii U, so no one really knows what the heck this thing is. That sounds like they have to continue supporting the Wii U at least for now. Momentum is caused by good word of mouth, and I think it's worth at least talking about the awesome 2015 we're having, and we'll see from there. Nintendo will likely reveal a bit more in the next couple of months, just like they did with Hyrule Warriors, Fatal Frame, and other titles in the past.
It was very clear that Nintendo was trying to sell you on the 2015 titles first and I'd say they did a pretty good job on that (possibly even brilliant job with Mario Maker). I actually wasn't planning on getting Yoshi or Mario Maker but I've completely changed my tune after E3 (both games look fantastic). While E3 is a way to announce titles releasing years from now (I'm looking at you FF7 remake), it also is a great tool to sell what you already have.
They're doing something for charity... People should cut them some slack about the last part.
Because the vast majority of those titles are already releasing in Japan this year? SMTxFE is being shown because it's releasing in Japan in 2015. Same deal w/ Fire Emblem Fates. And actually 3DS sales have been tanking recently (not as bad as Wii U yet), so that's honestly the more important boat to save b/c the Wii U won't suddenly compensate enough to make that worth it.
FAST isn't a first party game! It's an indie title by Shinen. Also Smoker... it's not even a retail game, so not sure why it's up there... The series is known for very pretty graphics and mediocre gameplay, so you can kind of tell it isn't a Nintendo made game.
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
Double post.
prag16
Banned
The Wii U is a dead console. And I'm perfectly fine with that at this point. I've gotten a couple hundred hours of pointer controlled CoD goodness (fuck dual analog shooters), a couple hundred hours out of MK8, a hundred hours between solo and playing with my son in SM3DW, plus some other "smaller" (in terms of time investment) games that I had a ton of fun with like the Bayonettas.
Games like Splatoon, MK8, and SM3DW still have a lot of longevity in my household probably for years to come, whether the console's dead or not (at least until they shut off the servers in Splatoon's case).
So basically for me, it was 100% worth the investment, and the console had a good run. Whether I board the hype train for whatever's next is another question entirely.
I have a PC (due for a video card upgrade... soon) and will get a PS4 "late" e.g. 2017 or so; I have a lot of gaming ahead of me regardless of what Nintendo does from here. We'll see. I never like to tie my entire stake in the hobby to any one place. There's great stuff all over.
Games like Splatoon, MK8, and SM3DW still have a lot of longevity in my household probably for years to come, whether the console's dead or not (at least until they shut off the servers in Splatoon's case).
So basically for me, it was 100% worth the investment, and the console had a good run. Whether I board the hype train for whatever's next is another question entirely.
I have a PC (due for a video card upgrade... soon) and will get a PS4 "late" e.g. 2017 or so; I have a lot of gaming ahead of me regardless of what Nintendo does from here. We'll see. I never like to tie my entire stake in the hobby to any one place. There's great stuff all over.
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